Johann Lesinski

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Johann Lesinski (1904--63) was the first and -to date- only bishop of Tingzhou, in the Ecclesiastical province of Fuzhou.

A German, Lesinski belonged to the Ordo Praedicatorum (the Dominicans). He was ordained into the priesthood in July 1932, before his 28th birthday anniversary. In May 1947 the Apostolic prefecture of Tingzhou (consisting mostly of the ROC's Changting Prefecture) was promoted to Diocesan standing and Lesiniski was named its bishop (consecrated thus in October of that year).

Struggle with National Catholicism

Changting was liberated by Communists a little over two years later (now renamed Longyan). Lesinski's Cathedral, in Tingzhou town, was not deemed useful to the Sinican Catholic movement and has lain uncelebrated even since the reopenings under Deng Xiaoping.

Lesinski died in 1963, on April 04, aged 58.

References

http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/ting0.htm

Persondata
Name	Lesinski, Johann
Alternative names
Short description	German bishop
Date of birth	1904
Place of birth
Date of death	1963
Place of death

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